Another kind of buddy

[Jesse Sheidlower]

On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 10:14:15AM -0500, Scot LaFaive wrote:
> I received a suggestive email this morning asking if I was looking for a
> "fuck buddy," which got me interested in that phrase. After searching Google
> Books I found a clear citation from 1988.

OED published this in 2004; our earliest quotation is from
1973. It's got the metalanguage note "esp. among male
homosexuals", and the definition "a friend or acquaintance
with whom a person (regularly) engages in sex without the
expectation of a romantic relationship".

Jesse Sheidlower
OED

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